Bullet train question...........?

Question

Are there any plans to build a "bullet train" like the one in Japan here in the United States? I think it would be fantastic if one was constructed. Would you ride it if one was built? It operates on electrogmagnetics, giving it an incredible speed.

Answer 1

nope but that's coz i live in the UK, but if they built one here i would go on it, very quite to, no rail noise

Answer 2

Japan's Shinkansen (Bullet trains) are electrically powered by overhead wires.  Top speed is about 240 km/hr (about 150 mph.)  France also has their TGV trains which are slightly faster than Japan's trains.  Germany has its ICE and China just opened up a high-speed electric train.

Magnetic-levitation (mag-lev) trains are different animals.  They are powered very powerful electromagnets on both the train and track.  The EM fields are time-phased to oppose each other to accelerate and slow the trainset.   Shanghai has a magev train, from its airport to about 10 km west of the downtown, and its top speed is nearly 415 km/hr (258 mph.)  They have proposed another maglev train out of Beijing.

California has a high-speed rail initiative working on plans and feasibility studies, but there is very little, if any funding beyond planning.   Las Vegas is studying to build one to Los Angeles.  And I think there is a Texas High Speed Rail program under study as well.

Answer 3

I think i herd on the history channel that they were going to build one out east.  I think i would ride in one.

Answer 4

I have no idea about one in the states, but I'm in Japan now and it is AMAZING!!

Answer 5

As long as Republicans control the US and Americans insisit on driving there SUV's at 3 dollars a gallon no.

The closest thing we have is the Acela Express